Piceance Creek
Piceance Creek is a 57.9-mile-long (93.2 km) tributary of the White River in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties in Colorado, United States. The name likely derives from the Shoshoni word /piasonittsi/ meaning “tall grass” (/pia-/ ‘big’ and /soni-/ ‘grass’).
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Piceance Creek
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 18, 2011
- ^ CASTANEDA, TERRI (November 2006). "Native American Placenames of the United States:Native American Placenames of the United States". The Public Historian. 28 (4): 100–102. doi:10.1525/tph.2006.28.4.100. ISSN 0272-3433.
External links
Media related to Piceance Creek at Wikimedia Commons
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